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I was in my office at 8 est, listened to a cd on the way in
First I heard was from an Aussie friend on MSN messenger, he said a plane hads hit the world trade center. I asumed he meant a cessna or some small thing.
Few minutes later my Dad called. He satarted to talk to me about some general shit, I said wait turn on the TV, I think somethings happening. He turned it on an I heard his reaction in the background.
I tried to get CNN, MSNBC etc for a while. I eventually loaded bbc.co.uk and saw a second plane had hit.
Then my Dad called me and said you better come over this looks bad.
As a pulled into the drive th pentagon was hit.
I watched CNN with my Dad and stepmother, my stepmother basically in convulsions through fear.
I though all along they would collapse given that damage. Then we watched as they collapsed right behind that that guy from CNN (jeff greenfield?). He said 'there are no words'. And there really weren't.
After that I lived CNN on and off for 2 days.
I am english, living in Canada at the time, but the moment those towers fell it really felt like time stood sitll and that things were somehow not quite the same as before.
matty
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